MIOSAT Satellite Mission Summary

CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY - MIOSAT -

Full Name

Piccola MIssione Ottica basata su microSATellite

Status

Cancelled

Mission Agencies

ASI

Launch Date

01 Jun 2014

Mission Links

mission site

EOL Date

01 Jun 2016

EO Portal Info

NORAD Catalog #

International Designator

Orbit Type

Sun-synchronous

Orbit Period

97 minutes

Orbit Sense

Descending

Orbit Inclination

97.9 deg

Orbit Altitude

615 km

Orbit Longitude

Orbit LST

10:30

Repeat Cycle

Objectives and Applications

Land surface, agriculture and forestry, regional geology, land use studies, water resources, vegetation studies, coastal studies and soils and main atmospheric gases detection.

Mission Measurements

Category	Parameter	Instrument(s)
Atmosphere	Aerosols	ALISEO
	Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature	Mach-Zehnder Micro-interferometer
	Trace gases (excluding ozone)	Mach-Zehnder Micro-interferometer
Land	Albedo and reflectance	ALISEO
	Vegetation	ALISEO, PAN CAM
	Multi-purpose imagery (land)	ALISEO

Mission Instruments

ALISEO - SAGNAC imaging spectrometer

Mach-Zehnder Micro-interferometer - Mach-Zehnder Micro-interferometer

PAN CAM - Panchromatic Camera

OpenSearch Datasets

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